Dissolve (also called crossfade) is a film editing technique used to transition between two shots. In a dissolve, image “A” gradually fades out as image “B” fades in, overlapping briefly in the middle. It’s often used to signal the passage of time, though it can also serve purely aesthetic purposes. [1]
This blog is just that—a daily log of myself. Thoughts I’m having, things I’m doing, what I’m experiencing, what I’m reading, and anything else. For two reasons: I archive myself over time, to see how I change. Writing here turns me into a subject—something I can step outside and observe. It’s a place to practice critical thinking and a kind of personal method.
I write whatever is moving through my mind. I don’t delete or edit anything. I don’t show this blog to anyone. I just write and post. It’s an exercise in thinking—understanding details and staying engaged with the strange, quiet things I experience from time to time. I enjoy watching my thoughts become a little clearer on this glass screen.
To be honest, I’m the main audience for this blog. But if you’re here reading these words, I hope they’re useful to you too.
Also: I usually write these kinds of posts in my Persian blog first, then later either rewrite them in English using ChatGPT—or, if it feels fun, I translate them myself.
The dissolve technique goes back to magic lanterns—old projection devices where you’d look through a binocular viewer and watch slides transition from one to the next. Back then, there wasn’t really anything like a “cut” in cinema; images just overlapped. These days, you don’t see dissolves used much anymore. ↩︎